Thursday, 18 May 2017

technique - How are "Little Planet" photos created?


How do you make mini-planet photos like this one?



enter image description here By Guido Radig (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons


Here are some examples of what I mean on Flickr: Making Planets - though I would be open to a better source of examples.



Answer



The basics is that you start with a 360-degree panorama and apply a rectangular to polar transformation.


I happen to have written introductory tutorials for both:



One easy short-cut is that some recent Fuji cameras actually can produce a seamless 360° panorama right in the camera. Make sure you choose the Cylindrical 360° option under the Motion Panorama function. Otherwise, or if your camera does not have it, then a seam will appear in the results.


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